The concept of consciousness continues to defy definition and elude the grasp of
philosophical and scientific efforts to formulate a testable construct that maps to human …

Objectives To review and update the evidence on predictors of poor outcome (death,
persistent vegetative state or severe neurological disability) in adult comatose survivors of …

Objective Many patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) have pre-existing or
acquired neurological disorders which significantly affect their short-term and long-term …

Objectives: To characterize the prevalence of withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, as well
as the time to awakening, short-term neurologic outcomes, and cause of death in comatose …

Objectives: Targeted temperature management improves survival and neurologic outcomes
for adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors but may alter the accuracy of tests for …

Introduction Non-invasive near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) offers the possibility to
determine regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO 2) in patients with cardiac arrest. Limited …

Neurological prognostication after cardiac arrest has always been challenging, and has
become even more so since the advent of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in the early 2000s …

Background Sedation and therapeutic hypothermia (TH) delay neurological responses and
might reduce the accuracy of clinical examination to predict outcome after cardiac arrest …

Objectives Few parameters are available to predict neurologic outcome of post–cardiac
arrest patients in the early stage of treatment. Optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) has been …

Aim Previous studies have examined the association between quantitative head computed
tomography (CT) measures of cerebral edema and patient outcomes reporting that a …